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the New Alliance Party. Party members and supporters have been recruited from patients undergo ing therapy at the Institute. An article in the Village Voice of June 1, 1982 observed: The most disturbing aspect of NAP... has remained consistent from the begi total integration, under Fred Newman's guidance, of psychotherapy and political recruit ment.... With about 300 patients, at least half of whom are NAP members and many of whom pay around $40 an hour for group sessions, the Institute’s annual cash flow may be above $500,000 a year. A substantial part of that sum finds it way into NAP and its satellites, but there is no way of knowing how much. Four years later, an article in Neusday revealed: But perhaps the most controversial aspect of the party is its network of six therapy clinics, grouped together under the Institute for Social Therapy and Research. The Institute, which sometimes works with Medicaid and Medicare patients, treats 1,500 patients a month, Newman said. Therapists connnected with the party follow a “drug-free” program of treat- ment, stressing the social origins of emotional illnesses, he said. Also in 1986, the black newspaper, Neu: York Voice (Nov. 1, 1986) wrote of the NAP’s Harlem center of the Institute for Social Therapy and Research: The three veareld Harlem center. . offers group, individual, family, and couples therapy aren os ihalops, seminars and medical testing and referral... . y > a ‘as. testis a woman or heing gay 1s not neutral to emotional health but must . . i ae ™ Beans ee ve wat radi alized in the sixties when she realized Ctra aah gee! ener " mee ue wrens laws male Z Therefore, for her and berver. bie errevaonal and medial ssues they address are nning: the ee a? ree | Buss: ~ot : ; trartwer me cee fteamtasttearewathing the pee whe cone tothe center fe P@arw ee? a? i beers to thee charger, the save To sore signifiant eatent emotional problems are Sea. a%rs th isaet latn n ord t . i Sa * po * pe etc is c J at i wetwcen vc hok v and licics ic tc just more oO n abxs., st | aa Wa tae . eae : aeons , ar | tens \ ca nich n a cucher(enuticd “Psvchopoliticn’) provided further insight into \ wu tai wesutthe NAAR The arucie noted chat sew man “nas determined (the party activists'] political direction at every turn” and has “tr J eated most of the NAP leaders” wi is “soci therapy.” The article went on: Sens with Bis Wsocial ae . Understanding ‘social therapy” from reading works of Fred Newman and his various co aborators isn't a simple undertaking. ... Yet half a dozen booklets and pamphlets Newman has self-published over the past 10 years do offer some clues about what he calls e Practice of method’~-which he regards as the best way to teach Marxism. .. .the end resu t, when a cure is achieved, is that “che patient is organized. . . {a cure] must result in t . patient performing revolutionary acts... acting in ways which reject... the mode of un , . . . . . —_ ut erstan ing, explaining and meaning authoritarianly identified with bourgeois ideo ogy...- This may sound like a formula for indoctrinating patients into NAP, and ice versa ‘specially because the Institute funnels money into NAP organizations seeks members at events, and teaches and trai trains current and prospectiv: J and its affiliates. ... a members of NAP Former NAP activi i ctivist Dennis i i ce NA a , Serrette has described the group as “basically a therapy cult person of Dr. Fred Newman.” Serrette characterized NAP as “an organiza va - BEST COFY AVAILABLE